Russia's Progress cargo spaceship reaches ISS in record time

KOROLYOV. April 4 (Interfax) - The Progress MS-11 resupply ship launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday has reached the International Space Station (ISS) and docked with it, setting a flight duration record, an Interfax correspondent reported from the flight control center situated in the Moscow region.

The docking was made in automatic flight and completed at 5:22 p.m. Moscow time. The ship took off at 2:01 p.m. Hence, a new record time was set for flying from the Earth to the ISS. The previous record belonged to the Progress MS-09 ship, which reached the ISS in 3 hours and 40 minutes last July.